| Retrofpelt of French Literaturem Voyages and Travels. 
tioned feveral plants calculated for being 
converted into Paper, initead of rags; and 
‘others that may ferve as fubstitutes for 
bark. He has alfo given two differtations 
by Linneus, one on an economical flora, 
and another on the utility of moffes. 
This work has attained fome celebrity, and 
is adapted to a variety of ufeful purpofes. 
“Tableau Methodigue du Cours d’Hif- 
tome” Naturelle, Se" “A® Methodical 
Defcription of a Courfe of Natural Hit. 
tory, drawn up for the Ufe of the Pupils 
belonging to the central School of the 
Department of Pas-de-Calais, eftablithed 
at Boulogne fur mer; by J. PreHoN, 
Profeffor of Natural Hiftory in the above 
Schocl, Member of the Society of Agti- 
culture and Arts at Boulogne fur mer 3 
a Correfpondent of various Societies, &c. 
&vo.1799. This little work contains a 
defeription of all the natural fubftances 
indigenous to the department of Pas-de- 
Calais; and alfo an account of all the 
foreign productions treated of in the cen- 
tral {chool. 
La Botanique pour les Dames.  Bo- 
tany for’ Wadies'’”’ “by Dr. A, 3. G. C, 
Barscu, Profeflor at Jena, Weimar. Dr. 
Batfch has borrowed nearly the whole of 
— J 
this work fiem Curtis’s Botanical Maga- 
zine. It confifts of an Svo volume, with 
roo coloured plates; the text is French 
and German. . 
VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. 
“Voyage de Dimo et Nicolo Ste- 
phanopoli en Gréce,” &c. 
of Dimo and Nicolo Stephanopoli in 
Greece, during the years V. and VI. 
{1797 and 1798}; in Confequence of 
two Miffions: one on the Part of the 
French Government, and the other in 
Confequence of Inftruétions from General 
Bonaparte, drawn up by one of the Pro- 
teffors of the Prytancum, with engravings 
of Figures, Plans and Views, taken on 
the Spot, 2 vols. 8yo. Printed at Paris, 
Vill. Year (179)), and imported by De 
Boffe. j 
Weare informed im the preface, that mo- 
derntravellers have taken very little pains to 
make themfelves acquainted with Greece. 
They have never deigned to vifir Cerigo, 
as if it were poffible that there fhould be 
nothing remarkable in a fpot where Venus 
was once worthipped. If we are to give 
credit to them. Maina is only peopled with 
ferocious and ihhofpitable robbers; and 
they confound the inhabitants of Cape 
Matapan called Portecailloties, with the 
, ether Mainotes, who ftill retain their pa- 
triarchial manners, and confequently the 
virtuesof the Homeric age. 
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It was in the power, we are told, of 
Greeks alone, ~ in confegquence of their 
knowledge of the cuftoms and manners 
of their country, to diffipate thefe errors, 
and fill up the chafims -in- the hiftory of 
nodern Greece. This is the tafk, which 
Dimo and Nicolo Stephanopoli have im- 
pofed upon themfelves, and their account 
fills the two volumes now before us. 
Dimo Stephanopeli fet out from Paris, 
on the 2d Floreal, of the fifth year(1797) 
accompanied by one of his friends, and 
arrived foon after at Leghorn, whence he 
_fent for three of hisnephews from Corfica. 
Vith thefe he vifited Venice, then {giled 
for Rovigno, and was in danger of being 
put to death by a hody of Sclavonians, | 
whom the French had banithed from the 
Adriatic. “Ar Sebbenico, they were alfo 
on the point of being maflacred, and at 
Lefina, Dimo was feized and imprifoned, 
He was releafed however from captivity, 
by the good bithop of Lefina, who ran- 
fomed him from the Sclavonians, after 
which he immediately repaired to Italy, 
and at Milan had a conference with 
Bonaparte, who employed him en «@ 
miffion to Albania and the Morea. He 
_defcitbes the fiyle in which that vice 
torious general then lived, as fimple in the 
extreme, and particularly remarks the 
toafi given after dinner, “to the re-eftabe 
lifhment of a republic in Greece!” He 
found Cephalonia in the poffefhion of the 
French, affitted in planting the tree of 
liberty in the capital, and beheld, no doubt 
with ecftafy, the four following fentences, 
ene of which was infcribed on €ach fide 
of the barrier that enclofed the emblem 
of freedom: ‘ : 
** L’amote alla patria, 
“" L’odio ai privileggi, 
“* Sono le bai della demecrazia,”® 
SE 
Ai Francefi, yindici 
Dell’ umanita, 
Ceffalonia riconofcente.** 
aE a aS 
La reunione e la fratellanza 
Di tutti i cittadini 
Formano la forza e la tranguillita — 
’ Della Republica ! 

“¢ Preferire il ben generale 
Al! proprio, 
E la prima virta 
Del Republicano.’* 
After the ceremony was finifhed; all the 
nobles threw their armorial bearings, their 
parchments, their robes and their large 
Bufhy wigs into the fames! ree 
After a refidence of a few days, our 
travedler fer out for Zante, and vifited 
Cerigo, 
